Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, fielded questions from financial analysts at the J.P. Morgan Technology, Media and Telecom Conference on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 21, 2009
Microsoft on Monday alerted users of its Exchange Server 2007 product that Service Pack 2 (SP2) will be coming sometime in the third quarter of this year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 21, 2009
Cisco's announcement this week of a new "Smart Grid" secure network infrastructure offering takes it further afield from its enterprise networking roots.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 21, 2009
Microsoft and HP expanded their existing agreements on unified communications (UC) products and services on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 20, 2009
Microsoft continued its foray into unified communications (UC) with an announcement last week of support for a virtualized topology in Microsoft Office Communications Server R2 (OCS R2).
- By Herb Torrens
- May 19, 2009
Responding to public reports of a wild bug, late Monday Microsoft issued a security advisory to address a potential vulnerability in its Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- May 19, 2009
The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 bits became available to MSDN subscribers Monday. A public beta is scheduled for release on Wednesday.
- By Kathleen Richards
- May 18, 2009
Microsoft Office Groove 2007 will get a name change next year that's more in tune with the SharePoint side of things.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 14, 2009
The European Union has slapped Intel with a 1.06 billion euro ($1.45 billion) fine for anti-competitive behavior in the x86-based microprocessor market.
- By Herb Torrens
- May 13, 2009
As expected, Microsoft rolled out only one patch for this month's Patch Tuesday, a critical bulletin for PowerPoint.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- May 12, 2009
Outsourcing activity is increasing, experts say, even as the scope and nature of that activity changes.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 12, 2009
The opening keynote address at Tech-Ed on Monday featured Bill Veghte, senior vice president of Windows business, who described a number of upcoming milestones for Microsoft's new products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 12, 2009
Microsoft has set up a repository in which government agencies may upload and store their public-facing datasets so that they can be reused by other parties.
- By Joab Jackson
- May 12, 2009
Looking to give its Surface table top device more functionality, Microsoft today released its first service pack with a new SDK that the company says will give developers more flexibility in adding more features.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 11, 2009
The second community technology preview of Microsoft's System Center Service Manager is now available for a virtual test drive, according to a Microsoft announcement last week.
- By Herb Torrens
- May 11, 2009
Microsoft on Monday launched the second beta of its claims-based identity management server platform, code-named "Geneva."
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 11, 2009
The next release of Microsoft's SQL Server database, code-named "Kilimanjaro," will offer master data management (MDM) and support real-time data feeds for business intelligence (BI), reporting and analytics, the company revealed today.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 11, 2009
Microsoft has restructured its .NET Micro Framework (MF) team and plans to eventually open up the .NET MF source code for community development.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 08, 2009
Chip maker AMD announced some strategic moves this week regarding the race for dominance in the graphics-plus-microprocessor space.
- By Herb Torrens
- May 08, 2009
The middleware software market has entered the slow lane in 2009, according to a Gartner report announced on Wednesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- May 07, 2009